Programatically show Run dialog

[Nakuribon]

ok, theres this windows api function SHRunDialog in Shell32.dll, and for those that kno VB, here is how the function is declared:

Declare Function SHRunDialog Lib "shell32" Alias "#61" (ByVal hOwner As IntPtr, ByVal Unknown1 As Long, ByVal Unknown2 As Long, ByVal szTitle As String, ByVal szPrompt As String, ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long

and how it is used:

SHRunDialog(handle, 0, 0, Nothing, Nothing, 0)

note that "handle" is any hwnd value, as the box is placed near whatever corresponds to the hwnd, the first "Nothing" shows the default title ("Run") and the second "Nothing" shows the default prompt. So,

SHRunDialog(handle, 0, 0, "Cheese", "Enter ur text", 0)

would produce a run dialog with the title as Cheese and the prompt as Enter ur text.

My problem is doing this in AutoIt. Here is my code:

Opt ("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)
Opt ("WinTextMatchMode", 2)
$MyHwnd = ControlGetHandle("classname=Shell_TrayWnd", "", "Button1")
DllCall("shell32.dll", "long", "SHRunDialog", "hwnd", $MyHwnd, "long", 0, "long", 0, "str", "", "str", "", "long", 0)

Why wont this work? Thanx!

~naku

PS wow that was long lol

[PerryRaptor]

I don't understand why you are taking this route vs. the AutoIt command Run() and RunWait().

I'd be extremely careful with this API call. It is not well documented.

Secondly, I think we should delete this topic.

[Nakuribon]

this is part of a start menu/button replacement project, and i need to know how to call this from my own start menu

[buzz44]

Using a latest BETA /w COM. Try this.

$objShell = ObjCreate("Shell.Application")
$objShell.FileRun